Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major league player and a minor leaguer lies in his brain power. The man in the minor league may be able to bat a ball as far, run just as fast, and throw a ball as hard as the major league man, but usually his mind is not as alert as the man in the higher league. Most ball players must play for serveral years in the minors before they can find a permanent, job in one of the major leagues. This is not true so much in the case of college men, because they can learn quicker and they...
...tall, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, leather-lunged, he is one of the best rough-and-tumble stump speakers in the country and an unrivaled storyteller. Not a profound man, not a polished man, not a studious man, he is shrewd, vigorous, alert and likable, with his humbuggery and sincerity mixed in about equal proportions. He believes in at least half of the things he says, which is a pretty good proportion for a Senator...
...alert special policeman, deputed to guard the Embassy, became suspicious. He asked her several questions in Italian, in which language the woman answered. She was waiting, she said, to see the Ambassador leave the Embassy and inquired when he was likely to come out. But this naive bantering did not disarm the bobby ; he seized her arms and made the discovery that up her sleeve, tight in her right hand, was a loaded revolver...
...School of Law of Columbia University. Dean Jervey retired a year ago from the Manhattan law firm of Satterlee. Canfield & Stone to become a professor in the Columbia Law School. In charge of the instruction in the courses in Personal Property and Trusts,- he quickly made his alert personality felt by students and faculty. Born in Charleston, S. C, in 1879, he was educated at the Charleston High School (1896), Charleston College (1896-97), the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. (B.A. 1900 and M.A. 1901), Johns Hopkins (1902) and (comparatively late in life...
...second successive year, under conditions which again threatened to convert the game to water polo, an alert and powerful Yale eleven has earned its victory over Harvard. The University bows to Captain Lovejoy and his men in acknowledgment of their clean sportsmanship and their invincible spirit...